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Tripods & Mounts: Red Oak LW and HD Standard Mount

The Burgess Optical Red Oak Standard Mount is a parallelogram binocular mount.

The Standard Mount allows easy adjustment of the binocular height, both for sharing the binoculars with others and for maintaining the same eyepiece elevation relative to ground when viewing objects at different altitudes. Terry Alford, an East Tennessee master craftsman, makes each Standard Mount.

The Standard Mount is available as a Light Weight (LW) Standard Mount and as a Heavy Duty (HD) Standard Mount. The LW Standard is suitable for binoculars up to about 3-1/4 pounds. The HD Standard is suitable for binoculars up to around 10 pounds.

Both models of Standard Mounts include metal bushings that act as bearings. The Standard mounts have approximately 16 inches of vertical travel. The Standard includes a altitude adjustment. The mount is adapted to be attached to a photo tripod head, such as a pan head or a three-way head (as shown in the photos). The mount comes with a 1/4x20 threaded opening in the base and is available with a 3/8x16 threaded opening.

The Standard Mount is not shipped with a counterweight. Depending up the weight of the binoculars, either a standard 2.5 or 5 pound barbell weight makes a fine counterweight. Barbell weights are available at many sporting goods stores and at Walmart. The Standard Mount has been designed to use standard barbell weights in order to minimize the shipping weight, which keeps the cost of shipping low. The Standard Mount comes with the hardware necessary to attach one weight.

The counterweight attaches to the lower arm of the Standard Mount and slides in a slot to compensate for the weight of the binocular. Lighter binos require the counterweight moved towards the binos, and heavier binos require the counteweight moved away from the binos. For larger, heavier binos, one 5 pound can be used, or two 2.5 pound weights can be used with one weight on each side of the lower arm. A 3 inch by 1/4 inch carriage bolt is required if two weights are used, and the bolt is readily available at any hardware store. The opening in the weight can be filled with 1 inch flat washers (about 6 to 8 are needed, depending up the thickness.

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LW Standard with Burgess 20x80LW LW Standard 1 LW Standard 2 LW Standard 3 LW Standard 4 LW Standard closeup of weight LW Standard closeup of bino end

Some of the above pictures show the Standard Mount on a photo tripod with Burgess Optical 20x80LW binoculars.

Accessories include a finder bracket that accepts a MRF^TM finder.

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